1 It was the first coin to use a 12-sided shape, and was worth one 80th of a pound. 2  It replaced the older silver threepenny bit, often used as a prize in Christmas puddings. 3  A silver threepence is still manufactured in very small numbers by the Royal Mint for inclusion in sets of Maundy Money.mage caption The Royal Mint is introducing the new coin as it believes 3% of existing Â£1 coins are fake. A new Â£1 coin, billed by the Royal Mint as the most secure coin in the world, is to be introduced in 2017.
The official language spoken in the Dominican Republic is Spanish. However, dialects are spoken across the country. The local dialect of the Dominican Republic is called Dominican Spanish and has some African influences. Moreover, it has borrowed vocabularies from the Arawak language.
The countries in the Caribbean where Spanish is the official language include Cuba and the Dominican Republic. The US territory of Puerto Rico also speaks Spanish.